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We have thus covered our main ground, but since corporeity has
been mentioned, we must consider its nature: is it the
conjunction of all the qualities or is it an Idea, or
Reason-Principle, whose presence in Matter constitutes a body?
Now if body is the compound, the thing made up of all the
required qualities plus Matter, then corporeity is nothing more
than their conjunction.
And if it is a Reason-Principle, one whose incoming constitutes
the body, then clearly this Principle contains embraced within
itself all the qualities. If this Reason-Principle is to be no
mere principle of definition exhibiting the nature of a thing but
a veritable Reason constituting the thing, then it cannot itself
contain Matter but must encircle Matter, and by being present to
Matter elaborate the body: thus the body will be Matter
associated with an indwelling Reason-Principle which will be in
itself immaterial, pure Idea, even though irremoveably attached
to the body. It is not to be confounded with that other Principle
in man- treated elsewhere- which dwells in the Intellectual World
by right of being itself an Intellectual Principle.
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